E A Hammel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E A Hammel |
| GIVEN NAMES | E A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammel |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMEL E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 546 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification
A fish stinks from the head
Demographic analysis clarifies political issues in the collapse of Yugoslavia. In most regions, 1961-1991, ethnic diversity (estimated by informational entropy) increased and segregation (estimated by Theilâ s H) decreased. In a few regions there was a
Personal Tributes to John H. Rowe
On January 7, 2005, a memorial for John Howland Rowe was held at the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, in concert with the annual meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies. A number of former students and colleagues, as well as his daughters, Lucy and Ann Rowe, spoke on that occasion of their experiences with John and of his many influences on their lives and careers. Here we reproduce the p…
Kinship structures and survival
This is an analysis of maternal survival of up to 13,202 mothers following 56,546 births in south central Slavonia (Croatia) in the period 1714-1898, using automated family reconstitution of 23,307 marriages, 112,181 baptisms, and 94,077 burials from seven contiguous Catholic parishes. Physiological factors have the effects commonly expected. Maternal risk is increased by general economic and social conditions that are plausibly related to withdr…
Structural and Behavioural Changes in the Short TermPreventive Check in the Northwest Balkans in the 18th and19th Centuries
Eating the Dead
Ethnicity and Politics
L'A. discute le concept d'ethnicite dans le contexte conflictuel yougoslave en le confrontant aux pluralismes culturel et ethnique des Etats-Unis. Il retrace l'histoire sociale des Balkans, explique l'ideologie des politiques hegemoniques, puis propose plusieurs alternatives aux politiques ethniques contemporaines
Kinship-based resource sharing in the agrarian economy of frontier Slavonia, 1698
The limiting factor of grain cultivation in frontier Slavonia was the number of oxen. Having oxen in the kinship network increased grain cultivation, but having oxen simply in the neighborhood did not. Exchanging oxen was more important than exchanging human labor. The marginal productivity of oxen declines more slowly than that of workers. There were constant returns to scale in a non-intensive unsophisticated autarkic agricultural economy. Grai…
Evaluating the slavonian census of 1698 part II
Evaluating the Slavonian census of 1698. Part I
Demographic constraints on population growth of early humans
Minotaur Redux
Science and Humanism in Anthropology
Gender and the Academic Career in North American Anthropology
Changing Sex Ratios
Meeting the Minotaur
Demography and the Origins of the Yugoslav Civil War
The author attempts to identify causes of the current conflict in Yugoslavia that relate to the regions historical and demographic history. concentrate on migration and perceived ethnicity in the Balkans and the crystallization of political blocks based on ethnic identification. I go on to speculate more widely about the importance of political and symbolic processes to demography. (EXCERPT)
Macrodontia in Pleistocene humans from Europe as a feature of physiological acromegalosis
Age estimation from the number of teeth erupted in young children
The reporting of children’s ages by parents is surprisingly inaccurate in many innumerate societies, but accurate knowledge of age is important for estimating recent changes in demographic rates. The timing of the eruption of children’s teeth is largely independent of environmental influences and can provide a relatively accurate and unbiased estimate of a child’s age. We have collected published data from 42 studies of children’s dentition and h…
A Theory of Culture for Demography
MUCH OF THE INGENUITY EXPENDED BY DEMOGRAPHERS over the last halfcentury has been devoted to refining techniques of measurement, so that variables of interest might be reliably presented for explanation. The task of explanation itself has been less successful. Efforts that have assumed a decontextualized universal rationality and the maximization of scarce and monetizable goods have dominated much of demographic thinking but have encountered incr…
A Glimpse into the Demography of the Ainu
Seven unpublished household censuses of Ainu populations on Hokkaido and Sakhalin between 1803 and 1853 are analyzed to show evidence of population decline well before the Meiji period. These populations show substantial diversity in household composition and community size, and complex household organization is pervasive, suggesting elaborate patron-client relationships not obviously based on kinship. Ecological differences may underlie this div…
Research in Population and Culture
Among the People
Short-term demographic fluctuations in the croatian military border of austria, 1830–1847
On the *** of Studying Household Form and Function
A Theory of Culture for Demography
MUCH OF THE INGENUITY EXPENDED BY DEMOGRAPHERS over the last halfcentury has been devoted to refining techniques of measurement, so that variables of interest might be reliably presented for explanation. The task of explanation itself has been less successful. Efforts that have assumed a decontextualized universal rationality and the maximization of scarce and monetizable goods have dominated much of demographic thinking but have encountered incr…
Comparing Household Structure Over Time and Between Cultures
Because of the importance of the family and household in all societies and at all historical periods, it is essential to be able to make comparisons between varieties of domestic groups. If we wish to comment on the extent to which the household is affected by social change and especially by the process of modernization, industrialization, social mobilization, or whatever that vague but ubiquitous phenomenon is called, it must be clear what would…
Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification
Academic Opportunity in Anthropology, 1975-901
Since 1960 there has been a steady decline in the number of children born each year in the United States. As a result, the number of eighteen- to twenty-one-year-old adults will decline from approximately seventeen million in 1980 to fourteen million in 1990. Even with an increasing percentage of college entrances, there will still be a large decrease in the college student population. New faculty will not be required, and even "growth" disciplin…
Formal Semantic Analysis
Research in Population and Culture
Computer Simulation and Analysis of Problems in Kinship and Social Structure
Household Structure in Fourteenth-Century Macedonia
Using data obtained from a fourteenth-century Serbian charter granting six villages to the monastery of Chilandar Athos the author examines the kinship structure of 127 households from that part of medieval Serbia now known as Yugoslav Macedonia. Household size and kinship structure are analyzed as a function of the length of the domestic cycle. The effects on this cycle length of post-marital residence net replacement rate sex ratio age at marri…
The Family Cycle in a Coastal Peruvian Slum and Village1
Structural and Behavioural Changes in the Short TermPreventive Check in the Northwest Balkans in the 18th and19th Centuries
Observations on the Intellectual History of Ethnology and other Social Sciences in Yugoslavia
As anthropologists turn increasingly to the study of complex societies, they are led to reflect on the role that social science plays in national ideologies and the ways in which the current state and development of social science reflect other cultural states and processes. Indeed, such reflections can usefully be turned on our own society. One sees that it is much more appropriate to discard old notions of the distinction between 'science' and …
The Value of Children During Industrialization
Sex ratios in childhood in nineteenth-century America were skewed, with a relative excess of males in agricultural and frontier areas, and the reverse in urban and industrial areas. The pattern is consistent at the state, county, and (where data are available) community and household levels. The most likely con tributing causes are sex-specific migration of families according to the mix of their children, migration of children themselves, and mor…
Demographic constraints on population growth of early humans
Age estimation from the number of teeth erupted in young children
The reporting of children’s ages by parents is surprisingly inaccurate in many innumerate societies, but accurate knowledge of age is important for estimating recent changes in demographic rates. The timing of the eruption of children’s teeth is largely independent of environmental influences and can provide a relatively accurate and unbiased estimate of a child’s age. We have collected published data from 42 studies of children’s dentition and h…
Cognitive Order in Genealogical Lists
Forty-seven spontaneously recited genealogies from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, are examined for evidence of internal order. Order was judged according to the following criteria of precedence in the order of recitation: males before females, agnates before non-agnates, consanguines before affines, ascendants before descendants, generationally close relatives before generationally distant, close relatives before distant ones, live relatives before dead o…
An Algorithm for Crow-Omaha Solutions
Short-term demographic fluctuations in the croatian military border of austria, 1830–1847
The Comparative Method in Anthropological Perspective
Comparison is an indispensable technique of analytic scholarship. No analytic statement about empirical observation can be made without at least one comparison providing the contrast that permits either inductive generalization or deductive proof. Comparison is used for these purposes in all disciplines, but not always in the same way, or for the same reasons. Anthropology came to comparison because comparison was thrust on it by the rediscovery …
F urther C omments on C omponential A nalysis
Changing Sex Ratios
Demography and the Origins of the Yugoslav Civil War
The author attempts to identify causes of the current conflict in Yugoslavia that relate to the regions historical and demographic history. concentrate on migration and perceived ethnicity in the Balkans and the crystallization of political blocks based on ethnic identification. I go on to speculate more widely about the importance of political and symbolic processes to demography. (EXCERPT)
Economic Change, Social Mobility, and Kinship in Serbia
Remarkable demographic, ecological, and economic changes occurring in Serbia, from the Middle Ages to the present period of industrialization, have effected clear alterations in kinship structure. Movement to more favorable farmlands from highland pastoral regions in the 19th century resulted in an increased size and span of household groups but in a replacement of the old tribal system by village organization. The lines of agnatic corporacy have…
A Corrected Model for Patrilateral Cross-Cousin Marriage
Evaluating the Slavonian census of 1698. Part I
Gender and the Academic Career in North American Anthropology
Current Mountaineering Folklore
The Little Gem Handy Gadgets
Three Local Tales
A Mountain Climber's Song
Some Models for the Analysis of Marriage‐section Systems
Archeology
The Family Cycle in a Coastal Peruvian Slum and Village1
General and Ethnology
Social Rank and Evolutionary Position in a Coastal Peruvian Village
A Corrected Model for Patrilateral Cross-Cousin Marriage
Sturgeon Hooks of Eurasia . G éza de R oheim ‐C sermak
F urther C omments on C omponential A nalysis
Territorial Patterning of Marriage Relationships in a Coastal Peruvian Village
Ethnology
An Algorithm for Crow-Omaha Solutions
A Transformational Analysis of Comanche Kinship Terminology
Formal Semantic Analysis
Rejoinder to Coult
Computer Simulation and Analysis of Problems in Kinship and Social Structure
Anthropological Explanations
Structure and Sentiment in Serbian Cousinship
Analysis of survey and interview data from modern Belgrade shows an interplay between the structural alignments of traditional Serbian kinship and the more individual considerations of affective relationships between parents and their siblings. Cousin relationships are a perpetuation of parental sibling relationships but are markedly affected by structural factors. "Liking" appears to be a matter of loyalty, trust, and obligation and is strongest…
Economic Change, Social Mobility, and Kinship in Serbia
Remarkable demographic, ecological, and economic changes occurring in Serbia, from the Middle Ages to the present period of industrialization, have effected clear alterations in kinship structure. Movement to more favorable farmlands from highland pastoral regions in the 19th century resulted in an increased size and span of household groups but in a replacement of the old tribal system by village organization. The lines of agnatic corporacy have…
Observations on the Intellectual History of Ethnology and other Social Sciences in Yugoslavia
As anthropologists turn increasingly to the study of complex societies, they are led to reflect on the role that social science plays in national ideologies and the ways in which the current state and development of social science reflect other cultural states and processes. Indeed, such reflections can usefully be turned on our own society. One sees that it is much more appropriate to discard old notions of the distinction between 'science' and …
Ethnology
Power in Ica
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